Hello and welcome to my MA degree website. I hope you will enjoy looking around at the work I have been working on since Sept 2004. Come to the MA show which is on 2-7 Sept at Art College, Margaregt Street, Birmingham B3 3HX. The website for the show can be found at www.ticklishsubjects.co.uk Please download Java(tm).
Show Title: Mind Wandering

In this work the notion of audience control and participation are explored through use of video, music and physical space. Emerging from the silver curtains, suddenly thrust upon a catwalk like center piece, the work suggests an exposure of the viewer to others in the space, as they find themselves becoming a controlling center of attention walking along the coloured units of changing textured carpet, and unknowingly upsetting the experiences of others. This passage of the new viewer is the trigger to changing the video and music pieces causing the navigation of each visitor to affect the experience of current and subsequent visitors – what you experience is a result of the visitors who have gone before you. The video and music pieces affect the state of the viewers’ consciousness as they try and find the screen to matched their sound track, or discover a new instrumental rendition of well known pieces of music: frustration, amusement, annoyance and projection are evoked as the pieces change because of the visitors’ location within the pathway.

Thankyou to the following people for their help and assistance in making the work come to fruition. Martin Hope for his engineering expertise and diligence and patience in helping to develop the midi music piece, Steve Elliott for his labour in scrubbing hte floor for hours on end and helping in the fabrication of the carpet piece, Carpets-R-Us for their assiatance in binding the carpet, Damian Henderson-Nix and Chris Bose for their assistance in the fabrication of the silver lame curtain and the hanging of the silver lame on the spiral staircase.